24He said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
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And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.
These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep. …
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
When Jesus heard that, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God might be glorified thereby.
And they that passed by reviled him, wagging their heads, …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 18-26)We have here two passages of history put together; that of the raising of Jairus’s daughter to life, and that of the curing of the woman that had the bloody issue , as he was going to Jairus’s house, which is introduced in a parenthesis, in the midst of the other; for Christ’s miracles were thick sown, and interwoven; the work of him that sent him was his daily work. He was called to do these good…
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